The Clifton clarion., 1887-03-02

the council to day, introduced by { Drake. Of Pima, the difference be- ing that instead of the territory paying for the expenses incidental
 to the keeping diseased stock out
 of tho country the stockmen them
 selves have to pay it, for which purpose they levy tax of one mill
 on every head excepting where less ! than threc hundred head are own
 cd by any person or company, in
 which case they are excepted from i the tax: this law is in fact almost
 q verbatim copy of the New Mex ! ico quarantine law and think it is | the one that will pass.
 Scott's, of Apache, bill to lessen ! the prevalence of disease among
 sheep, passed the house this even | ing and is mainly (as stated by
 him) to protect the sheep men of
 this territory from the Mexicans
 who bring diseased sheep over ! from New Mexico. It provides | that in case any owner of sheep does not doctor the same within
 thirty days after the appearance of l the disease q commissioner, of
 which there is to be one appointed
 in each county, shall take charge
 of the same and doctor them at the expense of the owner until they shall be cured
 ! Since the bill to abolish the of ! fee of commissioner of immigra- ton was lost, one has been passed | iu the council and IS now in tue house, which reduces the salary
 and allowances for printing, etc,
 from $l,5OO to $2,500 per annum,
 and this bill will pass either to-
 morrow or next day.
 i Two of the county division bills
 were taken from the table today,
 viz: the act creating the county of Frisco from the county of Yavapai and the bill annexing a portion of
 Yavapai to the county of Gila.
 the rest of them, including the proposed new county of Mics from Graham and Cochise, will be
 taken from the table tomorrow
 and will pass the house, either the same or succeeding day. They
 will not go through however, with ont a good deal of opposition and parliamentary sharp practice, in which Andrews, of Yavapai, is singularly proficient, and when ever any of these bills get before
 the house, motions to adjourn, in definitely postpone, lay on table, and every other obstacle that can possibly be presented, by this stu dent of Cushing's Manual, are as numerous, to use popular ex- precision, as the hairs on q yellow
 dog. These little skirmishes how ever bring out the eloquence of the members more than anything
 else and more talking has leeE done about these county division
 bills than about any other bills in the house. The only trouble Is that the speakers nearly all say the same thing every time these bills come up, the only difference being perhaps, that, like the little
 daughter of preacher, who was asked by one of her playmates, if her father didn't often preach the same sermon, upon which she re- piled, ''he does but then he hollers in different places" and so it is
 with them, they say the same thing over but perhaps they holler in different places. The originators of the bills have 1t their own way in the house the only opposition coming from the Yavapai and Co., chise delegations, and as the Yava- pai delegation is split, two of them being in that portion of tue county which wants to seceed, the opposi- ton numbers just eight votes, but in the council, 1 am inclined to believe that they will meet a much more formable opposition, and l doubt whether any of them will become law.
 The mania for the division of counties is not yet exhausted by any means. To day petition Was presented by Gray. of Cochlse, praying that portion of the county of Pima be annexed to his cJunty. and there will br a hill tr